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I'm afraid you misunderstood me: The "firgurative sensor beep" denoted the act of reverting percived speculation when there's no need to do so. |
I'm afraid you misunderstood me: The "firgurative sensor beep" denoted the act of reverting percived speculation when there's no need to do so. |
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| − | + | Uh, no, it didn't. First off, it is not baseless: Death Eaters are dark witches and wizards. They use Dark Magic. DADA class is all about defending against Dark Magic. The Death Eaters were a threat to almost everyone, and the Death Eater dummies had their likeness, allowing students to see how Death Eaters look like, which is undeniably useful in case they encountered them after school/between semesters. Given Voldemort's uprising and the ruthlessness of his followers, any DADA professor employed by Dumbledore duing the first wizarding war would've been expected, at the very least, to do their best to contribute to improve their student's ability to defend themselves. Then you have mechanical Death Eaters in the school grounds shortly after the fall of Voldemort, on which students practice defensive spells between classes, and defensive spells in taught in DADA class. The likelihood of a DADA teacher crafting them for teaching purposes is almost ridiculously more probable than the Ministry, which were as Sirius put it, in dissaray, torn between trying to fight back and hide the magical world from Muggles, would take the time to "build toys for the students to jinx" while in open warfare. And - well, theoretically they could have been bought off some random bloke in Diagon Alley during the war by Dumbledore or some teacher, it is kind of a random thing to put on the market. What would most people need them for? Students would need them, they're still learning, most adults were probably expected to know defensive spells already, so - less likely. Secondly, if making a pineapple tap-dance across a desk is within the ability of an eleven year old kid at the end of their first year, making a human-sized Death Eater dummy for the students to jinx is something any half-decent adult should be able to do with little to no difficulty. |
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| − | This aside, however, I didn't pass it off as fact, I passed it off as a likely (indeed, ''the most likely'') explonation of fact. A so-called "educated guess" of the type found littered around the wiki. [[User:Ninclow|Ninclow]] ([[User talk:Ninclow|talk]]) 20: |
+ | This aside, however, I didn't pass it off as fact, I passed it off as a likely (indeed, ''the most likely'') explonation of fact. A so-called "educated guess" of the type found littered around the wiki. [[User:Ninclow|Ninclow]] ([[User talk:Ninclow|talk]]) 20:04, March 18, 2018 (UTC) |
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.... *Sigh*
I would ask you to give it a rest already, or - I don't know., stop overusing the figurative sensor beep. but.. I don't think I'll get anywhere, will I? Ninclow (talk) 18:23, March 18, 2018 (UTC)
- "Figurative" and "encyclopedic text" do not mix. At any rate, I would stuggle to call what Ironyak1 just removed from the article figurative language; it literally was baseless speculation passing as fact. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 19:35, March 18, 2018 (UTC)
I'm afraid you misunderstood me: The "firgurative sensor beep" denoted the act of reverting percived speculation when there's no need to do so.
Uh, no, it didn't. First off, it is not baseless: Death Eaters are dark witches and wizards. They use Dark Magic. DADA class is all about defending against Dark Magic. The Death Eaters were a threat to almost everyone, and the Death Eater dummies had their likeness, allowing students to see how Death Eaters look like, which is undeniably useful in case they encountered them after school/between semesters. Given Voldemort's uprising and the ruthlessness of his followers, any DADA professor employed by Dumbledore duing the first wizarding war would've been expected, at the very least, to do their best to contribute to improve their student's ability to defend themselves. Then you have mechanical Death Eaters in the school grounds shortly after the fall of Voldemort, on which students practice defensive spells between classes, and defensive spells in taught in DADA class. The likelihood of a DADA teacher crafting them for teaching purposes is almost ridiculously more probable than the Ministry, which were as Sirius put it, in dissaray, torn between trying to fight back and hide the magical world from Muggles, would take the time to "build toys for the students to jinx" while in open warfare. And - well, theoretically they could have been bought off some random bloke in Diagon Alley during the war by Dumbledore or some teacher, it is kind of a random thing to put on the market. What would most people need them for? Students would need them, they're still learning, most adults were probably expected to know defensive spells already, so - less likely. Secondly, if making a pineapple tap-dance across a desk is within the ability of an eleven year old kid at the end of their first year, making a human-sized Death Eater dummy for the students to jinx is something any half-decent adult should be able to do with little to no difficulty.
This aside, however, I didn't pass it off as fact, I passed it off as a likely (indeed, the most likely) explonation of fact. A so-called "educated guess" of the type found littered around the wiki. Ninclow (talk) 20:04, March 18, 2018 (UTC)